Strongylocotes variegatus Carriker, 1936

Valim, Michel P. & Silveira, Luís F., 2014, A new species and five new records of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) from an isolated population of the solitary tinamou Tinamus solitarius (Aves: Tinamiformes), Zootaxa 3838 (1), pp. 127-142 : 136

Strongylocotes variegatus Carriker, 1936

Strongylocotes complantus [sic] variegatus Carriker, 1936: 86 , pl. 7, fig. 3. Strongylocotes setifer Hopkins, 1942: 116 .

Strongylocotes complanatus setifer Hopkins, 1942 ; Carriker (1944: 109). Strongylocotes variegatus Carriker, 1936 ; Hopkins & Clay (1952: 343).

Material examined: 1♀ ( MZUSP #3231), Roteiro (09°50'S; 35°58'W), Alagoas, Brazil, Nov. 1978, P.M. Nardelli coll. (W.C.A. Bokermann leg.)

Remarks: Strongylocotes variegatus is also a natural ectoparasite of Crypturellus variegatus . The presence of a posterior projection on the marginal carina of the head and the head shape place this species in a S. wernecki . The single row of setae on the postero-lateral sides of the vulvar margin is distinctive for S. variegatus . As mention above under Rhopaloceras variegatus , the host record of this S. variegatus female may be the result of a louse transfer from Crypturellus variegatus to T. solitarius pernambucensis . Regardless of its host association, this is the first record of Strongylocotes variegatus for Brazil.